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Oral History Interviews
| Ronald Reagan Project… 1. You mention the Pentagon’s mismanagement. I do not know what that refers to; 2. You mention some reluctance to … completely surprised—pleasantly—at his ability to do the job. Ultimately various names went to him, and he then made …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… just gave them to me, and I put them aside. I don’t know what good they are, if any. They’re book reports, tests, … He needs the automobile license in order to go from job to job. If he loses his automobile license, then he’s …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… between the two. Not only in the 1980 campaign, but what led up to it, his 1980 primary campaign, his relations … He worked hard. In the committee structures he did his job. He had excellent staff, and his commitment to the Senate …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Chris Jennings. Tell us when you first met Ted Kennedy. What were your impressions of him? Jennings From the very … with some special protections for small businesses. His job was to get Max Baucus to vote for this, and the Kennedy … against the package. They got to Stark, and he was like, “What’s going on here?” He got really mad, and he passed. He …
Presidential Biographies
… elections in 2010, as President Obama recovered from what he labeled the “shellacking” the Democrats received, he … The economy had stopped growing and was hemorrhaging jobs, with the unemployment rate nearing 10 percent. Housing …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… good schools. Miller It’s a very severe school. Swerdlow What was your educational experience like? Miller There was … don’t look, and they get a complete miscomprehension of what’s going on. The real general, the strategist for the …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… together of Tip and Hugh and myself and Pat Moynihan in what was labeled the Four Horsemen. We issued a statement in … for U.S. firms to invest in order to provide needed jobs for the people there. My hope is that once a peaceful …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… persuasiveness of the presentation. He was so sensitive to what would work with the audience. When he finished, he got … Committee, from Michigan. He said, Cederberg, what’s your question? Cederberg said, Well, Mr. President, I … press secretary and legislative assistant, and my whole job was to say no to every national television show and …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… O’Dowd Yes. Young Is that right, or did you have—what was your connection with Kennedy or Gerry Adams and the … about being around long enough, you see the same pattern. What’s promised and what’s delivered are two different …
Presidential Speeches
… interest as well. Many years ago, Woodrow Wilson said, what good is a political party unless it is serving a great national purpose? And what good is a private college or university unless it is … sense, of every educated man or woman to find 10 million jobs in the next 21/2 years, to govern our relations—a …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… President Clinton or of the campaign period through 1992. What were your impressions of him as a candidate and as an … a lot of recommendations or telling them how to do their job. We did not have gimmicks. Lots of times they were given …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… fairly obvious policy. Riley Can you track through for us what you recall about Iraqi policy in your subsequent years? … the 9/11 Commission—this is somewhat related—goes into what we were doing on terrorism, including my being more …
Oral History Interviews
| Bill Clinton Project… had no decoration of any kind. I don’t honestly remember what he was there for—maybe he was making phone calls for the … ticket and they had all of the leaders of some of what would be called the institutional groups that make up …
Oral History Interviews
| Jimmy Carter Project… extra official advisor of some type. I’m not clear as to what it was you were doing or what he asked you to do. We are … if you don’t believe what I have to say to you, then what’s the use of us talking about anything? The man is very …
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… under two presidents and five secretaries of defense. What follows is a list of concrete steps (in logical though … will face, there is simply no room for learning on the job. The next president will need experienced cabinet members …
The next commander in chief will have to contend with a more intangible though quite serious problem: growing uncertainty about the nature of U.S. global leadership going forward.
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… if they ever leave Texas, they’re still Texans no matter what, no matter where they go. B. Hart It’s a tough … everything to her supervisor, and the supervisor said, What’s all this? She said, It’s just another high-school book …
Presidential Speeches
… a compromise embracing a restoration of the Union; in what way can that compromise be used to keep Lee's army out … these views are some who have never had any affinity with what is called abolitionism, or with republican party … of the history was jotted down in black and white. The job was a great national one; and let none be banned who bore …
Oral History Interviews
| George W. Bush Project… Bush comes into office. Obviously, we can’t do that. What I’d like to get you to do is to talk a little bit about … the peculiarities and particularities of my own situation. What’s happening in the country to which I’m accredited? How …
Presidential Speeches
… Democratic governments have never been so numerous. What happened 2 or 3 days ago in Moscow would not have been … confidence provide the basis for winning, for getting the job done. There is no higher calling, no more honorable …
Oral History Interviews
| Edward M. Kennedy Project… but I think I have a feel for him. When people ask me what he's like, I usually focus on the difference between the … argument against that was, if a law is discriminating, what's the difference what people intended when they started …